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Kenneth Griffin, the billionaire art collector and hedge fund founder, purchased the document that abolished slavery, as well ...

So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...

The extraordinary event temporarily shut down equipment at the ALMA Observatory, and the snow reached the telescope's main ...

BARBARA CLARK SMITH is the curator of political history at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

The burial belonged to a child who may have lived among fishermen from the Chancay culture, which thrived in Peru before the ...